Gillian Ramchand
Gillian Ramchand is a linguist and Professor of Linguistics at the University of Tromsø, Norway. Since 2017 she has been President of Generative Linguistics in the Old World.Biography
She grew up in Jamaica and Trinidad and received her PhD in linguistics from Stanford University in 1993. She subsequently spent 10 years working at the University of Oxford as a lecturer in general linguistics before moving to Tromsø in 2004, where she became full professor two years later in 2006.Research
Her research focuses on the syntax-semantics interface, especially argument structure, and she has worked on a variety of languages including Scottish Gaelic, Bengali, and English.Selected publications
- Ramchand, Gillian. 1997. Aspect and predication: The semantics of argument structure. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Adger, David, and Ramchand, Gillian. 2005. Merge and Move: Wh-dependencies revisited. Linguistic Inquiry 36, 161–193.
- Ramchand, Gillian, and Reiss, Charles. 2007. The Oxford handbook of linguistic interfaces. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Ramchand, Gillian. 2008. Verb meaning and the lexicon: A first phase syntax. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Ramchand, Gillian, and Svenonius, Peter. 2014. Deriving the functional hierarchy. Language Sciences 46, 152–174.
- Ramchand, Gillian. 2018. Situations and syntactic structures: Rethinking auxiliaries and order in English. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
